How Drive made movie soundtracks cool again

Since Nicolas Winding Refn’s ultra-aesthetic, ultra-violent crime-thriller Drive premiered in 2011, its cinematography and score have been subject to great praise. It was initially reviewed as one of the highest-ranked and most-featured films on critics’ top 10 lists- and this hasn’t changed. Full of action (and Ryan Gosling), the film …

10/10/2016

Katie Grimsditch

Google Pixel: is it the best Android phone to date?

The most surprising thing about the Pixel, the first smartphone designed entirely by Google, is that it didn’t launch sooner. Having developed the world’s most popular mobile operating system, the Mountain View giants are the obvious candidates to get the most out of it. Still, better late than never. The …

06/10/2016

Chris Smith

Tech

Magpie Recommends: Pixies, The Shires and more!

Want something new to wrap your ears around? We’re here to help! Here are some of our favourite new and upcoming albums, all of which you can find on the musicMagpie Store. Head Carrier – Pixies For better or worse, Pixies will always live in the shadow of Surfer Rosaand …

05/10/2016

Chris Smith

Music

Bye Bye Blackberry: The 5 best things BlackBerry phones gave the world

BlackBerry is dead. Well, not really. But kind of. Recently, they announced they’re not making handsets anymore. That means no more Bold, Curve or any of the slightly weirder phones they made in recent years. They’ll still make software and, apparently, they’re going to lease out their software and brand …

04/10/2016

Chris Smith

Tech

5 ways smartphones have made life a million times better

There’s a lot of talk online about how bad smartphones are. According to various news outlets, they’ve turned us into screen-addicted anti-social zombies with shorter attention spans than goldfish and a deep-seated fear of missing out on even the most trivial of events. We’ve even written about smartphone addiction ourselves. …

03/10/2016

Chris Smith

Tech

Magpie DVD Club: Me Before You, Dexter and more!

Our DVD recommendations this week include a weepy romance, a serial killer, several ghosts, punk rock and Idris Elba. What more could you ask for? Me Before You Emilia Clarke of Game of Thrones fame stars in this adaptation of the Jojo Moyes’ novel, which has been known to turn …

30/09/2016

Chris Smith

Movies

What is the best way to organise your DVD collection? Hereâ€™s a geeky assessment.

You can tell a lot about someone from their DVD collection: their taste in movies, how cultured they are, how they feel about Nicolas Cage movies, how much disposal income they have and so on. You can also tell how organised they are. For some of us, this writer included, …

30/09/2016

Chris Smith

What is the internetâ€™s favourite 90s movie?

There were so many brilliant movies in the 90s that it’s hard to pick a favourite. Luckily, we have websites like Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB to help us. We’ve taken a load of classic 90s movies, added together their Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB user scores and worked out an overall …

29/09/2016

Chris Smith

Movies

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